Harmy said:
This is a great article, which TServo2049 just posted in another thread. It's about the advances in optical compositing made by ILM for the SW Trilogy - it is perfect to illustrate the point I was always trying to make about how digital recompositing destroys the artistic integrity of the FX shots, even if it uses the same elements, because the method and quality of the optical compositing was a huge part of the original effects.
Is that why you put back the original optical compositing back into your de-specialized edit?
Because most people would probably be happy if the stuff was redone digitally but otherwise no visual changes or CGI additions. I can see you're a perfectionist.
this was a great video by the way.
If you update the comparison site showing the changes and ways you restored the film, I would think it would be easier to go through if you gave the ability to separate it into different sections. Such as.
Undoing major changes
Restoring original effects or details that were redone, but not with new footage or CGI.
Other noticeable examples of color correction. (Since you're version seems to have a different color balance than any of the other video versions, I'm curious as to why you went with that and how well you think the THX version or 97 special edition got it right or didn't.)